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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Brain

"It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Brain

"Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins."

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
Brain

"A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk.""

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Conrad Aiken Poet, Novelist
Brain

"Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric."

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Andrew Stone Filmmaker
Brain

"It's the best gift in the world to be able to get up and dance because it's the best gym. You artistically stretch your brain and you physically stretch your body to a higher point than a singular rotation movement like running. It makes your whole body move in lots of different ways, and it can make you very flexible as well, which is good for later life."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Brain

"I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself."

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
Brain

"I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go."

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Brain

"The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Brain

"Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Brain

"In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains."

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Tom Wolfe Journalist, Novelist
Brain

"No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Brain

"But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day."

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